"Vast Righteousness, Seven Swords Slay Demons, monster, face my sword!"
Approaching the Nine-Headed Serpent, the Yun Zhong Seven immediately exited their sword escape state, shouting in unison, controlling seven flying swords of various shapes, striking towards the Nine-Headed Serpent's vital seven-inch point.
Seeing the spiritual mushroom about to take human form, seven core formation cultivators who didn't know death suddenly appeared, and the Nine-Headed Serpent immediately raised its nine massive heads to meet them.
The nine heads of the Nine-Headed Serpent each had their own marvels, the middle five could respectively unleash the power of the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, and after raising them, they immediately launched an attack towards the Yun Zhong Seven.
The two heads on each side were incredibly tough, comparable to the defensive magic treasures of Nascent Soul Stage cultivators, blocking the seven flying swords attacking the seven-inch vital point.
However, it still underestimated the Yun Zhong Seven's attack; the power of the Yun Zhong Seven's flying swords was not something that the magic treasures of ordinary Core Formation Realm cultivators could compare to, although it blocked them all, deep, bone-visible scratches appeared on those four snake heads.
Of course, the power of the five elements it spewed was also extraordinary, at least the Yun Zhong Seven did not dare to take it head-on, and immediately recalled their flying swords to defend.
Most of the Shu Mountain sword cultivators' energy is focused on a single flying sword, without those flashy formations and spells, it's all about breaking ten thousand techniques with one sword; attack is with the flying sword, and defense is also by using the flying sword to break attacks.
The Yun Zhong Seven controlled their flying swords to strike the Nine-Headed Serpent once, and then relying on the speed of the flying swords, they returned in time to disperse the power of the five elements spewed by the Nine-Headed Serpent.
Li Chuan originally thought that this Nine-Headed Serpent, being a majestic Nascent Soul Stage demon beast and so large, would definitely fight intensely with the Yun Zhong Seven in a frenzy.
Who knew that this Nine-Headed Serpent was a coward, discovering that its four heads, which had never been injured, were actually wounded, and the power of the five elements it spewed was also broken.
It actually disregarded that it was one realm higher than the opponent, immediately turned its head and darted towards the spiritual mushroom behind it, wanting to swallow the spiritual mushroom that hadn't yet taken human form and escape.
Later, Li Chuan also thought about it, after all, this is a World dominated by cultivators, if the Nine-Headed Serpent wasn't cowardly enough, it probably wouldn't have cultivated to the Nascent Soul Stage, and would have been killed by cultivators and had its core taken long ago.
Although the spiritual mushroom has not yet taken human form, eating it is enough to allow it to break through a realm, at that time its strength will increase, and then eating these few human cultivators and going to the mountainside to eat that Lotus Fairy, wouldn't that be wonderful.
If it entangled with a few human cultivators, not only was there a risk of being killed, but if the spiritual mushroom was stolen, then it would be a complete waste of effort.
Take advantage when possible, run if you can't win, this is the core principle of its thousand years of cultivation.
The Yun Zhong Seven were also stunned by the Nine-Headed Serpent's direct action; even demon cultivators wouldn't be as cowardly as the opponent, giving up after just one exchange.
Fortunately, the Lotus Fairy, also a demon, understood the Nine-Headed Serpent very well, and at this moment had already transformed her Water Release into Earth Release, appearing beside the spiritual mushroom.
When the Nine-Headed Serpent opened its bloody maw to swallow the spiritual mushroom, the Lotus Fairy manifested her true form, turning into a lotus flower to protect the spiritual mushroom in the center, causing the Nine-Headed Serpent's attempt to fail.
Although the Lotus Fairy was not a match for the Nine-Headed Serpent, being in the same Nascent Soul Stage, she could still manage to fully defend and block for a moment.
And as long as she blocked for a moment, the Yun Zhong Seven could join forces to slay the demon.
Indeed, after the Yun Zhong Seven reacted, they immediately controlled their flying swords again to attack the Nine-Headed Serpent, forcing the Nine-Headed Serpent to turn back and fight.
Just like this, everything was developing in the best direction according to the Lotus Fairy's plan.
"As the strongest Emei Sword Cultivators of the righteous path at the same realm, they are truly worthy of their reputation!"
Li Chuan, who was observing the battle from a closer distance by controlling the Crimson Spirit Fire Pearl, saw that in less than a moment, under the tacit cooperation of the Yun Zhong Seven, the Nine-Headed Serpent, which had Nascent Soul Stage strength, was already covered in wounds, and he couldn't help but let out a sigh of admiration.
The Elder of the Xuan Yin Sect he fought before was also not weak, but that Elder was mainly strong because of the Nine Zǐ Heavenly Demon Profound Yin Formation and the Heavenly Demons inside; in fact, as long as he was out of that large formation, he could instantly kill the opponent by opening the Eight Gates.
But the strength of the Yun Zhong Seven is genuine strength; Li Chuan felt that even if he opened all Eight Gates, if he relied on his body to take their flying swords head-on, he absolutely wouldn't be able to withstand them.
Moreover, the defensive magic he currently knew, he estimated that none of them could withstand the power of the flying swords.
However, it wasn't without flaws; at least if he were facing the Yun Zhong Seven's attack, he couldn't block it, but he could still dodge it.
The speed of the flying swords is very fast, and even with his body at full Eight Gates, he absolutely cannot compare to the speed of the Yun Zhong Seven controlling their flying swords.
But it is precisely because the flying swords are too fast that he found that when the Yun Zhong Seven were controlling their flying swords to attack, their speed would instead decrease significantly.
The reason is that if they didn't slow down, their reaction might not keep up, and they wouldn't be able to control the flying swords so perfectly.
It's like when you're driving on a straight road, you can definitely floor the accelerator and reach the fastest speed, but if you need to turn in the middle, you must slow down.
Otherwise, if the car doesn't turn, it's possible to fly out due to excessive speed.
Controlling magic treasures and flying swords is the same principle; if you use magic treasures and flying swords to attack the opponent, and the opponent dodges with their body, then you definitely need to control the magic treasures and flying swords to turn and pursue.
At this time, if the speed is too fast, exceeding your controllable limit, then the magic treasure or flying sword might rush out a large distance before you can control it to turn back and continue attacking, which actually reduces efficiency.
Only by slowing down the speed of the flying sword when close can perfect control be achieved.
In fact, this is also part of testing a sword cultivator's strength; the more powerful the sword cultivator, the more perfect their control over the flying sword; for example, Earth Immortal Realm sword cultivators can control their flying swords without slowing down at all, even at the fastest speed they can control them perfectly.
Li Chuan is currently in the Foundation Establishment Stage; his magic treasures are not enough to contend with the Yun Zhong Seven's flying swords, or rather, they are not on the same level at all, but when he opens the Eight Gates, his physical body is comparable to a Nascent Soul Stage demon beast.
Coupled with the fact that his body is much smaller and much more flexible than a demon beast, as long as his reaction is fast enough, he can actually rely on his body to evade the trajectory of the flying swords.
If he had a weapon capable of blocking flying swords, he could even rely on the weapon to parry.
But this can only be considered defense, evasion, and parrying, not counterattack.
Because a sword cultivator's flying sword can take a person's head from a thousand miles away, but his magic cannot reach that far.
But he has Apparition; the distance of his Apparition is much farther than a thousand miles away, and sword cultivators focus on cultivating swords, basically they won't set up formations that seal space.
So he can completely lure the opponent's flying swords a thousand miles away, and then instantly appear next to their main body with an Apparition, directly destroying their physical bodies.
No matter how fast those flying swords are, as long as they are far enough away, they cannot be faster than his Apparition.
So if he truly faced the Yun Zhong Seven, he felt that his chances of winning were greater.
If he faced other Core Formation Realm cultivators, his chances of winning would be even greater, because their magic treasures are not as fast as flying swords at all, and Li Chuan can also use his physical body to resist head-on, or even shatter the magic treasures of Core Formation Realm cultivators, just like dealing with that Elder of the Xuan Yin Sect.
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